[asicti]

"Furthermore, the glass was embedded into the cement modules in the factory"

Then what happens if any of the glass needs to be replaced due to breakage? Sounds like a short-sighted design choice.

[yencabulator]

It looks like the glass is fully accessible: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/CBR_Buil...

The sentence you quoted continues:

> protecting the floors from the elements and allowing work to progress on the interior as floors above were still under construction.

so it seems the main benefit was that the construction could be pipelined better as the already in place glass helped shelter the interior.